Element Earth
Exhibition Hall for the Phantechnikum Museum
Design Partner:
Frieda Kittler
Date:
Winter Semester 2021
This project consists of a new expansion wing of the Phantechnikum Museum. This new building will serve mainly as an exhibition hall of around 2,500 square meters. It will exhibit engineering and the technological history of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as vivid, interactive, and attractive.
The project is located in the Hanseatic city of Wismar in northern Germany.
The site is in an elevated position at the intersection of Lübsche Straße and Zum Festplatz
Demand:
One of the demands of the project is to honor the memory of the architect Ulriche Müther throughout the design by creating a shell structure. Also, by adding to the functions of the building an archive for storing Müther’s works.
Requirement:
The exhibition area of the existing museum is currently divided by natural elements like fire, water, and air. Only Earth was missing. As a requirement, the new exhibition hall has to be built with natural materials like rammed earth to emphasize even more the Earth element theme.